Nonwovens News

July 29, 2013US BioDesign, LLC, a producer of biomedical textile structure components, has relocated its current manufacturing headquarters in Perkasie, PA, to a business campus in Quakertown, PA. At its new location, the company will develop and manufactur…

July 24, 2013Autoneum has sold its subsidiary Autoneum Italy S.p.A. to the German industrial holding company mutares. A corresponding contract was signed on July 22. It was agreed to keep the transaction price confidential. This sale is a strategic step toward ad…

July 22, 2013Desso, a Dutch producer of carpets, carpet tiles and sports fields and Bonar, a performance technical textiles producer, have signed a long-term cooperation agreement to participate in a product development program for the next three years with a vie…

July 19, 2013Xanofi, a nanotechnology company specializing in nanofiber production and applications, has been granted a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This funding will help Xanofi build a working…

July 11, 2013Fiberweb has acquired control of its existing geosynthetics joint venture in Gujarat, India. Fiberweb now owns 65% of shares in the Terram India plant, up from 26%.
Terram India is based in a coastal industrial park near Mundra and has been fully op…

July 10, 2013Teijin Limited has developed a new type of meta-aramid fiber offering whait it says is the world’s highest level of heat resistance combined with excellent dyeablility, which the company will produce in a facility to be built in Ayutthaya Provi…

July 8, 2013Donaldson Co. Inc., Bloomington, MN, is planning to build a new filter manufacturing plant in Skarbimierz, Poland to serve the European and Russian markets. The new 108,000 square foot plant, which is expected to open in 2015, will produce heavy duty…